The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-05
COUNCILS LONG SESSION.
W. 3. ADAMS ELECTED PORT WAR
DEN AFTER 80 BALLOTS.

DEN AFTER 80 BALLOTS.
The City to Sell the Remainder OF the
Dillon Tract Next week-Congress
Street to be Paved from Drayton to
West Broad-The Cotton Oil Com
pany's Petition - The City Charter
Amendments.
The City Council had about as hard a time
last night electing Port Warden to succeed
Capt. Thomas H. Laird as the Florida Leg
islature is having 10 elect a successor To
Senator Jones.
There were ten candidates for the office.
On the thirty seventh BALLOT w. B. Adams
was elected by bare ma ority over William
Proctor The other candidates were iona
than Stern, Peter Donelan, A. G. Ybanez,
William Cantwell, Anton Stamm,
w. L. Walthour, W. H. Patterson,
and George NJ. Weymouth. The Council
entered into an election without having eau
cuSsed upon the candidates. The result was
what might have been expected The AL
derTnen are unused to disposing of questions
in regard to which there is likely to be any
wide difference of opinion, without having
previously reached an agreement in caucus,
and tho election was unwieldy in their
hands.
BEGINNING TO BALLOT.
During the first eight ballots none of the
candidates received more than three votes
Alderman Duncan suggested that the can
didate receiving the lowest vote be dropped
upon each ballot. Alderman Myers thought
it would be n good idea TO postpone
the election, and Alderman Wells suggested
d recess of ten minutes, in which a caucus
might be held Neither suggestion, how
ever, was adopted and the balloting went
on.
STICKING TO THEIR CHOICE.
The twentieth ballot gave Proctor 6, and
the vote then scattered. When the twenty
ninth ballot was reached the Mayor re-
marked that the thirtieth ballot would be
pretty sure to result in an election, but it
didn't. By this time an hour and half
had been spent in balloting and the
Aldermen were getting tired The thirty
second ballot resulted in a tie between
Proctor and Adams. 1t was pretty evil
dent that the election lay between these two.
-Four more ballots were taken and ON the
thirty sixth Adams received a majority and
was declared elected.
THE COTTON OIL COMPANY.
Mr.. Lewis W. Haskell, representing the
Southern Cotton Oil Company, petitioned
for exemption of the company from city
taxation in event it shall locate its proposed
oil mills within the western extended limits
of the city, which embrace nearly ell the land
fronting on the river as far as the water
works, and which, under the act of the Legis-
lature of 1888, will be subject to city taxa
ton after six years, until the
city be extended bona fide over
the western extension. The company,
Mr.. Haskell stated, has instructed him to
select a site for its mills either fronting on
the river west of the Central railroad
wharves or on the railroads Vale ROYAL
.Ausrl a,.f he
asked that the petition be considered at the
Councils earliest convenience, as the COM
pany desires to commence work at once
The matter was referred to the Committee
on Assessments.
TO AMEND THE CHARTER
Alderman Bogart's resolutions providing
for an amendment to the city charter con-
ferring the veto power upon the Mayor and
providing for the election of half of the
Board of Aldermen every two years for a
term of four years, was taken up as a special
order Alderman Bogart asked that the
resolutions be considered seTiatim The
first resolution, comforting upon the Mayor
the veto power, was unanimously adopted
The second, providing for change in the
manner of electing Aldermen, was defeated
by vote Of q to s. only eleven members of
the board being present.
TO PAVE CONGRESS STREET.
hAOcI nldil IeTOlublOH, dDDFONlIlG
the Congress street property owners petition
and authorizing the paving of Congress
street between Drayton and West Broad
streets, was taken from the table and unani-
mously passed. The City Surveyor was
authorized to advertise for bids at once
The kind of pavement to be used, whether
asphalt or stone, viii be decided upon by
Council when the bids are in. The
petition to pave Congress street was
presented early in the winter, but it failed
TO be approved in time to get the work done
this spring, and it will now have to go over
until fall. The Surveyor will advertise at
once for proposals to lay the paving, and
everything viii be in readiness to begin
work in November.
THE DILLON TRACT SALE.
Alderman Haines, chairman of the Com
mittee on City Lots, offered "A resolution, and
it was adopted, authorizing the sale of the
unsold portion of the Dillon tract which
was offered last Tuesday, at auction in front
Of the City Exchange, next Tuesday, May
IL. The remaining unsold blocks will be
put up at the same valuation that they were
offered al last Tuesday and the terms of the
sale viii be the same as before.